You can do this in a pipeline, which is the way I would usually recommend.

You can also do it in Saxon using the functions saxon:compile-stylesheet()
and saxon:transform().

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Koberg [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 24 November 2007 12:35
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  xsl2: temprorary tree containing xsl instructions
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to create a temporary tree that is a 'simplified'
> stylesheet and have its instructions processed?
> 
> For example I create a temporary tree that contains:
> 
> <title>
> BigCo.com: <xsl:value-of
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> 
> select="$page-instance/page/metadata/title"></xsl:value-of>
> </title>
> 
> $page-instance is a global variable that is (theoretically) 
> not used until the temporary tree is processed.
> 
> The temporary tree is finally processed by an identity 
> template to copy and hopefully process any xsl instructions 
> present in that temp tree.
> But it does not work -- the xsl instructions are just copied 
> to the result. Is there a way to make this happen?
> 
> thanks,
> -Rob